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Have just found out I have Chlamydia - was a wake up call tbh

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ItCanHappenToAnyone · 22/06/2010 16:59

I'm a regular poster but have changed for this as don't want to be judged.

About a week ago I was driving and felt a strange pain in my abdomen and back and I remembered a friend of mine about a year ago describing exactly the same thing which turned out to be chlamydia in her case. I have a relatively new partner who has blood tests for things like HIV and Hep C but who had never even heard of chlamydia! I get regular tests for chlamydia (always clear before) because I know how easily it spreads because it doesn't produce many symptoms.

I am now very worried about anything else I may have caught! Partner and I have both been treated for the chlamydia.

I still have abdominal pain and it is horrid to think of a pathogen that is silently causing a lot of damage to your body I think I was unprepared for the 'leper' feeling I have about having an STI. Not rational but hard wired iyswim...

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StealthPolarBear · 22/06/2010 17:01

Glad you have been treated - why not go and get a general sexual health checkup as you're worried.
Good you realised what the symptoms might be!

ItCanHappenToAnyone · 22/06/2010 17:16

Thanks - he's had a full screen this morning and I'm going to as well. It made me realise though that anyone can get this and some people have it for 10 years and don't know....

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StealthPolarBear · 22/06/2010 17:30

yes, i think that's the scary thing about it, the amount of people who have it and just don't know

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